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Can Nonexperimental Estimates Replicate Estimates Based on Random Assignment in Evaluations of School Choice? A Within-Study Comparison
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Bifulco, Robert – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012
The ability of nonexperimental estimators to match impact estimates derived from random assignment is examined using data from the evaluation of two interdistrict magnet schools. As in previous within-study comparisons, nonexperimental estimates differ from estimates based on random assignment when nonexperimental estimators are implemented…
Descriptors: School Choice, Magnet Schools, Computation, Statistical Analysis
Funding a Better Education: Conclusions from the First Three Years of Student-Based Budgeting in Hartford
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Doyle, Daniela; Boast, Lyria; Rosch, Jacob; Hassel, Bryan – Public Impact, 2012
When the Connecticut State Department of Education published its first district report cards in 2003, it was obvious that the Hartford Public Schools district was struggling. Fewer than half of its students were proficient on the state reading exam. Math performance was better, but 63 percent of 10th-graders and 43 percent of younger students…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Budgeting, Public Schools, Funding Formulas
Can Interdistrict Choice Boost Student Achievement? The Case of Connecticut's Interdistrict Magnet School Program
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Bifulco, Robert; Cobb, Casey D.; Bell, Courtney – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2009
Connecticut's interdistrict magnet schools offer a model of choice-based desegregation that appears to satisfy current legal constraints. This study presents evidence that interdistrict magnet schools have provided students from Connecticut's central cities access to less racially and economically isolated educational environments and estimates…
Descriptors: School Choice, Magnet Schools, School Desegregation, Quasiexperimental Design
School Choice in Suburbia: Test Scores, Race, and Housing Markets
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Dougherty, Jack; Harelson, Jeffrey; Maloney, Laura; Murphy, Drew; Smith, Russell; Snow, Michael; Zannoni, Diane – American Journal of Education, 2009
Home buyers exercise school choice when shopping for a private residence due to its location in a public school district or attendance area. In this quantitative study of one Connecticut suburban district, we measure the effect of elementary school test scores and racial composition on home buyers' willingness to purchase single-family homes over…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, School Choice, Racial Composition, Academic Achievement
School Choice: Four Case Studies of Home School Families in Connecticut.
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Cappello, Nancy M.; And Others – 1995
Home schooling is one form of school choice that is on the increase. During the 1993-94 school year, Connecticut school officials estimated that there were 1,113 home-instructed students in the state, an increase of 305 students from the previous year and a 1,384 percent increase since 1983. This paper presents findings of a case study that…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship
Customer Choice or Business as Usual?: Promoting Innovation in the Design of WIA Training Programs Through the Individual Training Account Experiment.
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Perez-Johnson, Irma; Decker, Paul – 2001
The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 requires that workforce investment areas establish individual training accounts (ITAs) that provide vouchers customers can use to pay for training. The United States Department of Labor is supporting the ITA experiment, during which new customers determined to be eligible for training will be randomly…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Counseling, Comparative Analysis, Delivery Systems